Machines Quotes - Page 12

• The Orphic Machine is the poem: a severed head with face turned away that sings.

  Allen Grossman

  Faces

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• The real problem is what can man and machine do together and not in competition.

  Richard Hamming

  Real, Men, Competition

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• No matter how exotic human civilization becomes, no matter the developments of life and society nor the complexity of the machine/human interface, there always come interludes of lonely power when the course of humankind, the very future of humankind, depends upon the relatively simple actions of single individual.

  Frank Herbert

  Lonely, Simple, Civilization

  Frank Herbert (2008). “Dune Messiah”, p.132, Penguin

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• Human beings were behaving as human beings and not as cogs in the capitalist machine.

  George Orwell

  Cogs, Capitalist, Humans

  George Orwell (2016). “Homage to Catalonia / Down and Out in Paris and London”, p.8, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• A washing machine needs constant maintenance. It doesn't want any harm. It wants tranquility, and you need someone to - you're not going to harm it by continuously monitoring it and adjusting it.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Needs, Maintenance, Want

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• There is ...a huge tacit conspiracy between the U.S. government, its agencies and its multinational corporations, on the one hand, and local business and military cliques in the Third World, on the other, to assume complete control of these countries and "develop" them on a joint venture basis. The military leaders of the Third World were carefully nurtured by the U.S. security establishment to serve as the "enforcers" of this joint venture partnership, and they have been duly supplied with machine guns and the latest data on methods of interrogation of subversives.

  Edward S. Herman

  Country, Military, Gun

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• If economic progress means that we become anonymous cogs in some great machine, then progress is an empty promise.

  Charles Handy

  Mean, Promise, Progress

  Charles B. Handy (1995). “The Empty Raincoat: Making Sense of the Future”, Random House Business Books

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• I don't believe that in the name of the holiness of the city you have to put barbed wires, machine gun nests, mine pins and everything of that, in the name of the holiness of Jerusalem.

  Yitzhak Rabin

  Believe, Gun, Cities

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• Programming is how we talk to the machines that are increasingly woven into our lives. If you aren't a programmer, you're like one of the unlettered people of the Middle Ages who were told what to think by the literate priesthood. We had a Renaissance when more people could read and write; we'll have another one when everyone programs.

  Tim O'Reilly

  Writing, Thinking, People

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• I have got to say, I'm a businessman, I work in business, worked with some very large corporations around the world, and I have never seen a better operating machine than what the New South Wales right machine is.

  Warren Mundine

  World, Corporations, Wales

  Source: www.sbs.com.au

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• The washing machine changed the world more than the Internet.

  Ha-Joon Chang

  World, Internet, Changed

  "Ha-Joon Chang: The net isn't as important as we think" by William Skidelsky, www.theguardian.com. August 28, 2010.

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• Machines need to talk easily to one another in order to better serve people.

  Nicholas Negroponte

  Order, People, Needs

  "Angelmaker". Book by Nicholas Negroponte (p.207), 1995.

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• The machine has several virtues... One may lean back in his chair and work it. It piles an awful stack of words on one page. It don't muss things or scatter ink blots around.

  Mark Twain

  Ink, May, Pages

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• Twiddle-twiddle away at my softly clicky keyboard for a while, making twiddly adjustments all along- and then print what I have twiddled. Glare at the printout and snarl and curse and scribble almost illegibly all over it with a ballpoint pen. Go back to the machine and enter the scribbles. Repeat this procedure until I hate the very meaning of every word I know.

  Roy Blount, Jr.

  Hate, Keyboards, Scribbles

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• The American belief machine apparently has a fail-safe component. Nothing shuts it down.

  Gary Sloan

  Safe, Belief, Failing

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• If I was feeling depressed or frustrated about my lot in life, all I had to do was tap the Player One button, and my worries would instantly slip away as my mind focused itself on the relentless pixelated onslaught on the screen in front of me. There, inside the game's two-dimensional universe, life was simple: It's just you against the machine. Move with your left hand, shoot with your right, and try to stay alive as long as possible.

  Ernest Cline

  Moving, Simple, Player

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• Two things hold promise of improving those lights. One is to apply science to land-use. The other is to cultivate a love of country a little less spangled with stars, and a little more imbued with that respect for mother-earth - the lack of which is, to me, the outstanding attribute of the machine-age.

  Aldo Leopold

  Country, Mother, Stars

  Aldo Leopold (2013). “Aldo Leopold: A Sand County Almanac & Other Writings on Conservation and Ecology: (Library of America #238)”, p.438, Library of America

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• I never have free time, I don't know about you. You ever go to the cash machine, there's two people in line in front of you and you get kinda flustered, you're like "Forget it! I'm not standing here for 40 seconds. I got things to do, okay?"

  Jim Gaffigan

  Funny, Humor, Two

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• If I thought that raising the minimum wage was the best way to help people increase their pay, I would be all for it, but it isn't. If you raise the minimum wage, you're going to make people more expensive than a machine. And that means all this automation that's replacing jobs and people is only going to be accelerated.

  Marco Rubio

  Jobs, Mean, People

  "Texas Indictments; Plane Crash Investigation; Republican Debate". "CNN Newsroom", www.cnn.com. November 11, 2015.

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• I always thought that the movie had to be really raw, very edgy, that everything had to be super grounded and feel very real. If this was going to be a story about kids discovering time travel and building a time machine that we needed to believe that they really did it .

  Dean Israelite

  Real, Believe, Kids

  Source: collider.com

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• We who have seen him now, light on his feet, smooth moving as a leopard, a young man with an old man's science, the most beautiful fighting machine I have ever seen, may live to see him fat, slow, old, and bald taking a beating from a younger man. But I would like to hazard a prediction that whoever beats Joe Louis in an honest fight in the next fifteen years will have to get up the floor to do it.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Beautiful, Moving, Fighting

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• Surely, if we take on thinking partners - or, at the least, thinking servants - in the form of machines, we will be more comfortable with them, and will relate to them more easily, if they are shaped like humans. It will be easier to be friends with human-shaped robots than with specialized machines of unrecognizable shape. And I sometimes think that, in the desperate straits of humanity today, we would be grateful to have nonhuman friends, even if they are only the friends we build ourselves.

  Isaac Asimov

  Grateful, Thinking, Humanity

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• The Frenchman Jean-PaulSartre ... had a dialectical mind good as a machine for cybernetics, immense in its way, he could peel a nuance like an onion, but he had no sense of evil, the anguish of God, and the possible existence of Satan.

  Norman Mailer

  Evil, Mind, Onions

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• If mankind is to escape its programmed self-extinction the God who saves us will not descend from the machine: he will rise up again in the human soul.

  Lewis Mumford

  Self, Soul, Extinction

  Lewis Mumford (1970). “The myth of the machine”

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• Meryl Streep is an acting machine in the same sense that a shark is a killing machine.

  Cher

  Sharks, Acting, Killing

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